Archive for October, 2008

links for 2008-10-30

10 Geeky Movies That Should've Been Terrible, but Weren't | Geekdad from Wired.com (tags: writting movies List Geek) Knuth: Recent News (tags: story programming books banking bank security) Paulson's Swindle Revealed (tags: News Finance crisis) 166680main_image_feature_735_ys_full.jpg (Image JPEG, 2000×1500 pixels) – Redimensionnée (57%) (tags: photos hurricanes) Barack Obama should be the next president of America [...]

Add-in Applications arrive in LinkedIn

Add-in Applications for Linkedin are available here. For the moment only a few can be added to  a profile like the WordPress and Blog Link one: LinkedIn: Application Directory via kwout I added my blog to my profile using the WordPress application: LinkedIn: Home via kwout

links for 2008-10-30

PC World – Business Center: Why Windows 7 Will Be Better Than Vista (tags: windows News) A Psychologist Helps Repackage Democrats’ Message – NYTimes.com (tags: usa politics nytimes) TwitterFox – naan studio – Trac (tags: web2.0 twitter tools software plugins mozilla firefox) » Scream Queens – KING-mag.com (tags: Cinema List) Ultimate Security Proxy With Tor [...]

links for 2008-10-28

Everything You Need to Know About the Financial Crisis: A Guest Post by Diamond and Kashyap – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog (tags: nytimes interview economy economics crisis banking finance) Twenty-One Condom Ads You Never Saw Coming (tags: Fun Ad) Google Gadgets in Gmail (tags: web2.0 googlereader google gmail) Gmail Modes (tags: [...]

Financial crisis wrap-up

Yesterday I came across this very comprehensive page on the financial crisis at The Baseline Scenario. This page list radio postcasts, video, but also explanation about CDS or bank re-capitalization. I’m still digging in all this information. The content list is copied below: Financial Crisis for Beginners « The Baseline Scenario via kwout Financial Crisis [...]

links for 2008-10-27

Krugman On The Financial Crisis And Public Spending : NPR (tags: economy finance crisis) The mother of all currency crises – Paul Krugman – Op-Ed Columnist – New York Times Blog (tags: world economics crisis 2008 finance) Four Myths Created in the Financial Crisis – Seeking Alpha (tags: Finance crisis blog) Facts and Myths about [...]

TED Spread iGoogle Gadget

One of the main indicator of the financial crisis is the TED Spread. Erik Saltwell has created an iGoogle gadget that displays this information as shown below: iGoogle via kwout The Gadget might be found here. A more complete explanation of TED Spread is available on this Reuters Blog post. The gist of the explanation [...]

links for 2008-10-26

Nassim Nicholas Taleb – TIME (tags: interview finance crisis) Think Tank: Steve Coll: Online Only: The New Yorker (tags: us future economics business 2008 finance crisis) Black Swan Guy Says Banks Will Become Water Companies (tags: Finance crisis) Letting Lehman Go: Debating A Disaster (tags: Finance crisis) Should Lehman Have Been Rescued? – Finance Blog [...]

links for 2008-10-25

Credit Crisis – Reshaping Wall Street | Reuters.com (tags: News Reuters Finance Crisis) TED spread – Reuters Financial Glossary (tags: Finance Definition) Global Investing » Blog Archive » Tale of the TED | Blogs | (tags: investing blog Reuters) Five Reasons Why Blogging Improves Your Writing (tags: blogging blog writing) Ruining Your Writing by Cheap [...]

The gardian is available is full-text by RSS

The announce is available on the Gardian blog: Upgrading our RSS feeds | Help | guardian.co.uk via kwout